Cumberland-Keswick-1805 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19682

Map Date:

? 1805

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 18.C.13.(170)

Historic county:

Cumberland

Town name:

Keswick

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NY265235

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NY 2622

Map title:

'Plan of Keswick Town.'

Comments on map:

In 'Plans of the several estates and farms belonging to Greenwich Hospital, in the counties of Cumberland, Northumberland, and Durham. From actual surveys. 1805.' (Letterpress title and contents, engraved maps to a very high standard.) Most of the maps, including this one, are undated, but some in Northumberland, placed earlier in the volume, are dated 1824, and the Keswick map may likewise be much later than 1805. At (155) in the same volume is 'Plan of Keswick estate in the county of Cumberland. I. Dickinson surveyor.', 1:3168, n.d., also engraved by Walker, and duplicating cover of the town.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

J. Walker [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

23.7 x 18.7

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 18.c.13(170).

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

tithe barns

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1862

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560